The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is excited to announce the launch of Cudyll Cymru, a brand-new citizen science project aimed at enhancing our understanding of birds of prey across Wales.
The BTO is looking for volunteers from today - find out everything you need to know, and how to sign up here.
Selected from a record-breaking 59,228 entries from 117 countries and territories, the winners of the Natural History Museum's prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were revealed at an awards ceremony in South Kensington this evening.
Celebrating its sixtieth year, the flagship Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition featuring the 100 awarded images will open on Friday 11 October 2024 at the Natural History Museum, London.
Read MoreThe Bird Photographer of the Year 2024 winners have been unveiled. An impactful image showing over 4,000 birds that died colliding with windows in Toronto has taken the grand prize in the world’s largest bird photography competition.
Photographers from all over the world entered more than 23,000 images into the competition, each with their eyes on the £3,500 grand prize.
Read MoreMangrove Action Project – a global charity dedicated to promoting science-based training to conserve and protect mangroves – has launched their 10th Mangrove Photography Awards. The competition invites photographers of all ages and levels to submit images that showcase the beauty, diversity and fragility of mangrove forests worldwide.
Read MoreUK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising Kuenzang Dorji from Bhutan with a Whitley Award for his work to protect Endangered Gee’s golden langur in the East Himalayas and his solutions for local farmers whose crops the primates are targeting as climate change drives a shift in their behaviour.
Read MoreUK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising Raju Acharya from Nepal with a Whitley Award to bolster protection for owls in central Nepal after spearheading a government-backed ten-year plan to safeguard the birds which had been overlooked from conservation efforts.
Read MoreUK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising Aristide Kamla from Cameroon with a Whitley Award for his landmark work to restore the habitat of the African manatee in Lake Ossa. The marine scientist has become the country’s foremost specialist in the mammal, addressing threats to its freshwater habitat from rapidly expanding invasive species and pollution.
Read MoreUK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising UK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising Naomi Longa from Papua New Guinea to expand her work to monitor and manage coral reefs in the biodiversity hotspot of Kimbe Bay and to further extend her female-driven marine conservation model in local waters of the Coral Triangle, home to 76 percent of the world’s coral reef species.
Read MoreUK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising Fernanda Abra from Brazil with a Whitley Award for her pioneering work to build and monitor low-cost canopy bridges over Highway BR-174 in the Amazon rainforest in a project she plans to scale for widespread adoption to protect tree-dwelling mammals from road impacts.
Read MoreUK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising Leroy Ignacio from Guyana with a Whitley Award for galvanising one of the country’s first Indigenous-led conservation movements and to strengthen protection for the Red Siskin, a small Endangered finch which has become a flagship species for conservation in the rapidly developing rainforest nation.
Read MoreUK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising Dr Purnima Devi Barman from India with the 2024 Whitley Gold Award for her work to save the Greater Adjutant Stork – known locally as Hargila - whose numbers have quadrupled in Assam to more than 1,800 thanks to a dynamic campaign she masterminded and which she is expanding to include 20,000 women.
Read MoreUK charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) is recognising seven outstanding conservationists with 2024 Whitley Awards for leading their communities in saving some of the world’s most fragile ecosystems and for their innovative solutions to the threats to nature in India, Brazil, Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Guyana, Cameroon and Nepal.
Read MoreUsually flowering from late March to early May, this year’s mild winter and spring means we may well see them early and Forestry England expects a bumper bluebell display in the nation’s forests.
Surrounding yourself with the delicate scent and sea of blue colour is a must-do spring nature experience so pack your picnic and head to one of Forestry England’s recommended list of bluebell woods.
Read MoreThe world’s largest garden wildlife survey returns, with hundreds of thousands of people watching and counting the UK’s garden birds over the last weekend in January for the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch.
Over half a million people took part in 2023, counting more than 9 million birds.
Together let’s make it count.
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